It started off as just a way to be creative, for(as most of you know) my husband is a tad of a picky eater. I grew tired of making the same old things for him. So when I stumbled across The Domestic Goddess website, I knew that could be my creative outlet. I started with no camera and very little posts. I'll admit I did very little with this blog this first year. It was an exciting day around here when a post got more than two comments. I remember the first time one of my post got 10 comments on it and I called my husband at work all excited. He didn't seem to share my enthusiasm. Now I tend to get more than 10 comments. (Several people leave comments saying they doubt that I have time to read all the comments. Let me assure you, I read every last one of them.) Then I got a camera and started taking incredibly bad photos with them. Now before you give the, “I'm sure they are not that bad” speech...head over here and see for yourself. Then I was smart and started … [Read more...]
Inspired by….
So we are going in a new direction with Tuesday's With Dorie. We are no longer giving the recipe. Which I understand and support, but my site is about giving people recipes. So in order for me to continue to do that, I will not actually be doing Dorie recipes. Just recipes inspired by Dorie. That way, you still get a recipe and I have to try a little harder to come up with something. :) This weeks recipe, La Palette¢â¬â„¢s Strawberry Tart, selected by Marie(A Year at Oak Cottage), is a simple tart that is spread with strawberry jam, then fresh strawberries and topped off with crème fraiche or whipped cream. I decided to make it into cookie form. My cookie dough is blended with fresh mint, rolled out and cut so that they are like linzer cookies(having a hole in the middle). Strawberry jam goes between the two layers of cookies and fresh strawberries are place in the cut out. With just a tiny dab of whipped cream. If you want to see what the actual tart was suppose to look … [Read more...]
All in a name…
Sweetbreads sounds so much better than thymus glands. Escargot sounds better than snails. Rocky Mountain Oysters sounds better than testicles. It's all in the marketing really. I mean, I am quite sure that panna cotta would not be as popular as it is, if it were called Cream Jello. Which is what it is essentially. Sugar, cream, gelatin...panna cotta. Sounds like Cream Jello to me. :) But we don't call it that, and plenty of people eat it, including me. In my quest for finding Pacific Northwest foods for my other blog, I ran across a recipe for Buttermilk Panna Cotta. Needing to use up my soon to expire buttermilk I gave it a go. The original recipe does not use honey or dried cherries and throws in poppy seeds. They also use a fresh fruit compote as well. I'm sure it is nice but I didn't have any spare fruit lying around. Been super busy, will write about that later. This dessert was enjoyed with these lovely chilled mussels. Together they made and excellent Pacific Northwest … [Read more...]
Come to the Dark Side….
We all have a dark side. Sometimes the devil on our shoulder somehow quells the angel over on the other. I'm sure duct tape is involved. My parents were lucky...or so I tell them. I was a good kid. Good grades(except when I tried to fail geometry to get a boy I liked to tutor me :P ). No detention, ever. No trouble at school, ever. Pretty much a teacher pet(aka: brown nosing ass kisser). Grounded twice, one of which my mother over turned when she came home(my dad had grounded me). Spanked twice. See, good. I had my moments though. Where I was not really punished but I got the “disappointed” talk. Which I was probably only one of the few kids this worked on...for nerdy me hated to disappoint my parental unit. One of those disappointing talks came when I was around 7(not sure totally on the age) and my aunt and uncle had come to visit. My cousins, C and C came with them. I have few cousins(my family apparently doesn't like to breed...me included), but C and C were who I was … [Read more...]
